#Roguelike

When Risk of Rain 2 was announced to be in 3D instead of 2D, I wasn't sure what to think. I loved that the developers were going in a new direction with the IP, but was worried it wouldn't quite have the same panache.
I was so freaking...

You hold all the cards to winning today's contest for a Switch copy of Monster Slayers!
Attention villagers -- we have a monster problem. A pretty big one. They're everywhere. They smell, and they're mean, and frankly. I just don't like the...

Developer Croteam has stealth released a brand new Serious Sam title on Steam. A roguelike, top-down shooter, Serious Sam: Tormental sees players jumping into the mind of ancient Egyptian god Mental to stop him from doing bad things...or so...

I'm not sure what else I can say about the roguelike genre that I haven't already written. So many of these games play by the same rules that describing one can be easily applied to another. Just swap out some names and platforms and you're...

While visiting Headup Games' booth at PAX East this weekend, the first thing about their new title Dead End Job was its very iconic art style. If a game looks like The Ren & Stimpy Show, then it already has my attention.
To be com...

Indie, roguelike, and pixel-art. These three buzzwords have been increasingly prevalent in recent years. After the immense success of The Binding of Isaac, everyone and their mother started to jump on the roguelike bandwagon. Edmund McMille...

Bandai Namco invited me by its PAX East booth to get a look at Double Fine's upcoming action rogue-like Rad. The top-down action game has you pummeling mutants for survival in a randomly generated world that has succumbed to not one but two...

Dodge Roll is moving on from Enter the Gungeon after finding more success than the team "ever dreamed to imagine," but first, we're getting one last free update. A Farewell to Arms is coming April 5. The original idea was to have a new ran...

Although we're used to seeing the phrase "sold best on Switch," Dead Cells developer Motion Twin confirmed during GDC that PC was their top-selling platform. Yet, the Switch did come in second right behind it, beating out the PS4 and X...

Get your groove back with our contest for ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove!
I never understood how something could be both funky and fresh, but ToeJam and Earl have always been known as funky fresh. Quite the conundrum, right?
Well you...

After years of wading around on its own hosted website and supporting itself through Patreon, the mother of all rogue simulations Dwarf Fortress is making its way to Steam and Itch.io in the near future. Part-management-sim, part-rogue, Dwa...

A few months back, I got the opportunity to play ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove with series creator Greg Johnson. In a relaxed and comfortably humid showroom, the two of us sat side-by-side, guiding the titular heroes through this fr...

I was excited for RemiLore: Lost Girl in the Lands of Lore. A Diablo-style action adventure where your main pickups are popsicles and candies, where you can wield a chocolate-covered banana as a weapon, all set in a bright and colorful...

ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove is out tomorrow and PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One and...it's actually pretty good according to our own CJ Andriessen.
It'll also have a little extra pepper on it, as the one and only Macaulay ...

Indie outfit SuperScarySnakes has announced that their upcoming PC title, Black Future '88 will also be released on Nintendo Switch as a console exclusive. The retro-styled action game will launch on both platforms later this year."Black Fu...

If you held off buying Dead Cells for Nintendo Switch because you knew the developers were going to tighten up the less-than-perfect frame rate, today's the day to see what the fuss is about. Motion Twin has brought its game-changing 1.1 up...

Bask in this SNES-inspired RPG in our contest for Tangledeep.
I gotta say, my favorite part about hunting down games to feature for contests is finding absolutely stunning ones like this one to present to you guys. A lot of games come out t...

Grab your sword, shield, and spellbook for our Rampage Knights Switch contest!
Who's up for a free indie game? I would be, but, you know, I work here. I can't enter these contests. But rest assured, I would if I could.
You don't work here, ...

Early Access is always a gamble. It seems that even if a game gets traction before it goes to full retail, by the time version 1.0 goes live, much of the momentum around the community has faded into memory. It happened with PUBG, We Happy F...

I have a confession to make. We were very close to passing by this one. In the business of finding gems at a place like PAX South, first impressions are huge. My first impressions for Dicey Dungeons aren't bad by any means, but it didn't ha...

It's a slight bummer that I'm only now for the first time hearing about Caveblazers without letting its name go in one ear and out the other, but I'm ready to make amends. The bouncy roguelike platformer shares DNA with Spelunky and Risk of...

Modding is one of those beautiful parts of playing games on PC. It allows fans to implement little (or big) changes that can be just what a game needs to elevate it from great to truly wonderful. The best thing about it is that modding leav...

Capybara's new dungeon-delving adventure, Below, places a lot of confidence in its players. Aside from a few basic control prompts up front, the beloved indie studio offers almost zero explicit instructions. There's a fundamental faith that...

Below, the long-awaited new adventure from Sword & Sworcery and Super Time Force developer Capybara Games, isn't quite the game I expected it to be. Part of that is on the project's initial secrecy, and part of that is on me for decidin...

Well, borderlands continues the series tradition of having terrible boss fights for single It’s always nice to kill 90% of a boss and then have to start over because there wasn’t anything else to kill to get back